designing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of design

adj

  1. artful; scheming
    a designing man

noun

  1. A process of design.
    Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out? 1829, Richard Carlile, The Lion

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